Joe’s trolling on the halacha governing gitten indirectly provide an inyan of mussar that warrants repetition: No person, man or woman, ever wants to feel “powerless’ in any relationship. We can intellectually understand the spiritual concepts that the Ebeshter created men and women with different strengths and roles which in turn have been translated by chazal into different “rights” and “obligations”. However, as real people, we also have our own perceived need for personal empowerment and respect. When one partner in a marriage asserts “dominance” over the other through flaunting of their “rights” under halacha, that is toxic for a relationship, even if accurate from the perspective of someone who can readily quote daf/amud from maseches gitten.
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